Thursday, May 17
By Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, Kentucky Health Policy Institute In an earlier post, I urged readers to make their opinions known to Metro Louisville leadership about the University of Louisville’s request to maintain the status quo as to how public money for indigent care – the QCCT funds – is funneled through U of L. In that [...]
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By Michael Hannon Tierney of Funny Bones. It was an all too perfect circumstance. Writing about my friends, the bands I love, the places I frequent most. My first assignment was an easy decision. It was time to describe a place of abundant spiritual fortune, a place where rock-n-roll is still alive, a place that has [...]
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(Editor’s note: This post is courtesy of Larry Cooper, Louisville Jazz Society.) Today is Earth Day. As part of the celebration, local jazz greats Jamey Aebersold, sax, Steve Crews, piano, Butch Neeld, bass and Jonathan Higgins, drums, will play a free concert at Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center. The concert is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The [...]
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By Mark Graban, author of “Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement” The public is continually subjected to health-related scares, such as food packaging and water bottles that contain BPA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer. The media also highlights food additives that aren’t harmful, but just sound unappetizing, such as [...]
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(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a series of posts about how legislation is crafted, specifically a proposed amendment to Louisville’s Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission.) By Curtis Morrison Shortly after lunch on the first Friday in February, Marty Meyer, Louisville Metro Councilman David Yates’ Legislative Aide, sent out an email signed with [...]
Read More →(Editor’s note: This post is courtesy of Larry Cooper at the Louisville Jazz Society.) Celebrate your winners (or forget your losers) by visiting one of the clubs and restaurants hosting Louisville’s fine jazz players. And help us celebrate them by joining us at www.louisvillejazz.org/membership.php. Check out all the gigs in town this coming week: Friday, 4 May: [...]
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(Editor’s note: This opinion piece was first posted on Kentucky Health Policy Institute website and is used here with permission.) By Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, KHPI I received a copy of a message University of Louisville President Dr. James Ramsey sent out this week to a star-studded list of politically connected board members, university executives, and [...]
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Student journalist Emily McConville: Top JCPS students find high school graduations in jeopardy after they exhaust math class choices!
Senior Ankush Gupta stared at the computer screen, eyes wide. He had just pulled up the JCPS graduation requirements and read the one fact that would pose a problem for the next several months: Jefferson County Public Schools requires not four credits of math, but four years. Gupta had many more than four credits [...]
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